{"id":190129,"date":"2026-08-24T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/190129\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:16:15","slug":"nigeria-lexecutif-approuve-un-amendement-pour-depenaliser-les-tentatives-de-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/190129\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria : l\u2019ex\u00e9cutif approuve un amendement pour d\u00e9p\u00e9naliser les tentatives de suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Le Federal Executive Council a valid\u00e9 un texte qui doit encore \u00eatre examin\u00e9 par l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e nationale. La r\u00e9forme vise \u00e0 faire sortir la tentative de suicide du champ p\u00e9nal pour la traiter comme une question de sant\u00e9 publique.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"353\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width:100%; height:auto;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Pigier-journee.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Le gouvernement nig\u00e9rian a approuv\u00e9 un amendement \u00e0 la National Mental Health Act pour supprimer les sanctions p\u00e9nales visant les tentatives de suicide, une r\u00e9forme qui doit d\u00e9sormais \u00eatre transmise \u00e0 l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e nationale pour examen.<\/p>\n<p>En l\u2019\u00e9tat du droit, l\u2019article 327 du Criminal Code Act punit d\u2019un an d\u2019emprisonnement la tentative de se donner la mort. L\u2019ex\u00e9cutif d\u00e9fend un basculement d\u2019une logique punitive vers une prise en charge fond\u00e9e sur le soin et le soutien.<\/p>\n<p>Cette orientation s\u2019inscrit dans un chantier engag\u00e9 plus t\u00f4t. En octobre 2025, le gouvernement affirmait d\u00e9j\u00e0 que le processus de d\u00e9p\u00e9nalisation, lanc\u00e9 avec une task force nationale en 2024, \u00e9tait \u00e0 un stade avanc\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Le ministre de la Sant\u00e9, Muhammad Ali Pate, a fix\u00e9 un objectif de r\u00e9duction de 15 % des suicides et tentatives de suicide d\u2019ici 2030. Il a aussi cit\u00e9 une estimation de l\u2019OMS faisant \u00e9tat de plus de 7 000 d\u00e9c\u00e8s par suicide par an et d\u2019environ 300 000 tentatives dans le pays.<\/p>\n<p>La National Mental Health Act figure d\u00e9j\u00e0 parmi les politiques publiques mises en ligne par le minist\u00e8re f\u00e9d\u00e9ral de la Sant\u00e9, et l\u2019amendement valid\u00e9 par le Federal Executive Council doit encore franchir l\u2019\u00e9tape parlementaire avant toute entr\u00e9e en vigueur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Le Federal Executive Council a valid\u00e9 un texte qui doit encore \u00eatre examin\u00e9 par l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e nationale. La r\u00e9forme&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[176],"tags":[2205,92,57434,57433,192,293,50836,57435],"class_list":["post-190129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-amendement","tag-approuve","tag-depenaliser","tag-lexecutif","tag-nigeria","tag-sante","tag-suicide","tag-tentatives"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@afrique\/117149970497084636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}